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NIC And Planning Commission Announce Hackathon To Aid 12th Five Year Plan

In what is a pleasantly surprising move, the National Innovation Council and the Planning Commission have announced a hackathon on April 6th & 7th, 2013, asking users to come and aid the government in visualizing India's 12th five year plan. Public can participate in three categories - visualizations, short films/animations and mobile applications. Visualisation category primarily covers infographics with respect to different subjects like wildlife in India, water conservation etc. Interested people can also make submissions for the short films/animation category. Mobile applications category invites web and mobile apps from developers on different . It appears that these apps will become a part of the Mobile Seva Project. The data.gov website directs readers to the Mobile Seva website for reference and ideas. Participants can submit more than one entry in multiple categories. The hackathon will take place across different venues in the country such as IIT Madras, IIT Kanpur, IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, Delhi University, TISS Mumbai, IIIT Hyderabad and IISc Bangalore. Registration for the hackathon opens on March 22, 2013, and teams can not have more than 4 people. The Mobile Seva Project The Mobile Seva National Rollout was announced by the government earlier this year. This project intends to provide citizens with the government services on mobile phones to avoid multiple visits to government offices. The draft RFP for technology partners for this project was also released earlier in March requesting for stakeholder feedback. The government is looking to partner with private technology companies for a period of 3 years. Some of the features…

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